LIVE from the Camino Met the first forum members with a patch today

[BeatriceKarjalainen]

Passed 2 pilgrims with forum patches on their packpacks today just after Hornillos del Camino. Have no idea who they were but said hi and showed my patch before heading on.

Now I'm in Itero de la Vega for the night.

My feets are OK. Walking mainly in my sandals instead of the boots.

Having a lovely time and a nice Camino family that I meet now and then. One of them will go home in a couple of days and I'll miss him. Me and another girl is ending up in the same albergues every night. It is nice.

 

[KinkyOne]

You're doing it so fast, Beatrice, that I can hardly catch up with you even only reading your posts

Take care! Ultreia!

 

[BeatriceKarjalainen]

You're doing it so fast, Beatrice, that I can hardly catch up with you even only reading your posts

Take care! Ultreia!

Thanks.

I'm a fast walker. Can't walk slow even with 9 kg on my back. I don't want to stop at 11 and have to sit in an albergue queue all day. So I walk until 1-2 in the afternoon. Then I stop. My Camino family is also doing long stretches. Tomorrow we will meet up in Carrión de los Condes. 34.7 km from here.

 

[Kiwi-family]

What time do you set out in the morning?

 

[BeatriceKarjalainen]

What time do you set out in the morning?

Between 0530 and 0730 depending on distance, where and if I can sleep or not. Today I was out 0530 because of the other person in the room started to pack all his plastic bags at 0445.

The meseta is better to do early. Today I was here in Carrión de los Condes (33.4 km from Itero de la Vega) at 1115.

 

[Bajaracer]

Between 0530 and 0730 depending on distance, where and if I can sleep or not. Today I was out 0530 because of the other person in the room started to pack all his plastic bags at 0445.

The meseta is better to do early. Today I was here in Carrión de los Condes (33.4 km from Itero de la Vega) at 1115.

I don't understand the types who get up 0445, make lots of noise, and not leave till 0600, I usually passed them by the time they made their first morning break and hoped they wouldn't stay where I was staying at my next stop, this happened to me at Villacazar de Sirga. I got up, packed my bag, and enjoyed breakfast with the French Hospitaleras, and rolled out at 0630 and walked to Itero de la Vega passing the "early risers" by Carrion de los Condes and stayed ahead of their "wave."
If you have the chance, I would stay at Albergue San Nicholas before Itero de la Vega, a beautiful albergue with 12 beds, donativo with communal dinner included, they open at 1500, I regret not staying there, if I only had extra food with me that day i would have stayed there, I saw the interior and was impressed but I was hungry and walked on to Itero de la Vega, one of my regrets on the Camino.

 

[BeatriceKarjalainen]

If you have the chance, I would stay at Albergue San Nicholas before Itero de la Vega, a beautiful albergue with 12 beds, donativo with communal dinner included, they open at 1500, I regret not staying there, if I only had extra food with me that day i would have stayed there, I saw the interior and was impressed but I was hungry and walked on to Itero de la Vega, one of my regrets on the Camino.

I was in Itero the day before I wrote the text. So I went from Itero to Carrion so I could't use your tip. I stayed in a really boring place in Itero, La Mochila.

Now I'm in Mansilla de las Mulas and they have their tomatoes festival this weekend. No tortillas in the bars just tomatoes The tomatoes fight is tonight.

 

[Bajaracer]

I too stayed at La Mochilla, not very exciting, just a place to sleep and move on.